Convert bytes to string in python

Question

I have the following printed bytes returned from another system using sockets:

b"\x0bMessage Received!\r\x1c\r"

For example: print(b"\x0bMessage Received!\r\x1c\r".decode(encoding="utf-8"))

And a I got

Can you help me to understand how to get an output like this Message Received! from that message.

Try this, print(b"\x0bMessage Received!\r\x1c\r".replace(b'\x0b', b'').decode(encoding="utf-8")) — shaik moeed
– shaik moeed, Commented Mar 5, 2020 at 12:03

snakecharmerb · Accepted Answer · 2020-03-05 12:12:37Z

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You need to strip out the unwanted characters (in this case vertical tab and carriage return):

>>> bs = b"\x0bMessage Received!\r\x1c\r"
>>> print(bs.decode().strip())
Message Received!

answered Mar 5, 2020 at 12:12

snakecharmerb

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Nayanish Damania · Accepted Answer · 2020-03-05 12:04:21Z

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b"\x0bMessage Received!\r\x1c\r".decode("utf-8")

answered Mar 5, 2020 at 12:04

Nayanish Damania

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